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| Genre/Form: | Horror fiction., Short stories. |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marvin Kaye |
| ISBN: | 031211026X 9780312110260 1568650434 9781568650432 |
| OCLC Number: | 29845364 |
| Description: | xv, 573 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The others / J.C. Oates -- Tap dancing / J.G. Betancourt -- The hungry stones / R. Tagore -- The southwest chamber / M.E.W. Freeman -- The lost room / F. O'Brien -- The ghost to his ladye love / W.S. Gilbert -- The happy children / A. Machen -- Darby O'Gill and the good people / H.T. Kavanagh -- Keeping his promise / A. Blackwood -- A day in the life of Comrade Lenin / C. Buggé -- The throwing suit / D. Schweitzer ; J. Van Hollander -- The man who wanted to be in the movies / J. Jakes -- Fidel Bassin / W.J. Stamper -- Unsigned original / P. Godwin -- The clemency of the court / W. Cather -- The empty zoo / E.D. Hoch -- Beyond sleep / B.N. Malzberg -- Finnegan's wake / trad.-- Bianca's hands / T. Sturgeon -- The iron man / F. Laing -- Sagittarius / R. Russell -- Wolf / M. Moorcock -- An illusion in red and white / S. Crane -- Man overboard / W. Churchill -- The people of the pit / A. Merritt -- In the Avu Observatory / H.G. Wells -- In the valley of the shades / C.H. Sherman -- The thing in the hall / E.F. Benson -- The inchcape rock / R. Southey -- Mr. Wilde's second chance / J. Russ. The dreams in the witch-house / H.P. Lovecraft -- The little man on the subway / I. Asimov ; F. Pohl -- The poems / R. Bradbury -- Vision quest / P. LoBrutto -- The man in the bottle / B. Meyrink -- A diagnosis of death / A. Bierce -- Remember me / J.V. Putten -- The pardon / E. Pardo-Bazan -- The one thousand dozen / J. London -- Carmanda / J.A. Salmonson -- The spirit of hospitality / S. Terry -- The cripple / M. Level -- The squaw / B. Stoker -- Pictures / I. Werner -- The necklace / G. de Maupassant -- The necklace: a sequel / J. Moffitt -- Midnight / J. Snow -- Ms. Lipshutz and the goblin / M. Kaye -- Amina / Edward Lucas White -- Simpson's lesser sphynx / E.M. Friesner -- Dress of white silk / R. Matheson -- The palace of the mountain ogre / T. Sanders -- Snow white waking / A. Slaughter -- The little witch of Elm Street / M. Clingerman -- The brown mans' servant / W.W. Jacobs -- Poppa bear / A. Vogel -- In letters of fire / G. Leroux -- Green magic / J. Vance. |
| Series Title: | Guild America books |
| Responsibility: | selected by Marvin Kaye. |
Abstract:
Fifty tales of terror and horror by masters of the genre. They range from Bianca's Hands, by Theodore Sturgeon, in which a man becomes obsessed with a girl's hands, to Jack Snow's Midnight, the story of an occultist who is attacked by demons.
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